Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O

https://pganalyze.com/blog/postgres-18-async-io

79•lfittl•1h ago•4 comments

Show HN: eInk optimized manga with Kindle Comic Converter (+Kobo/ReMarkable)

https://github.com/ciromattia/kcc

38•seam_carver•45m ago•2 comments

Know Your Enemy: How Three Years at McKinsey Shaped My Second Startup

https://blog.zactownsend.com/know-your-enemy-how-three-years-at-mckinsey-shaped-my-second-startup

26•zt•3d ago•6 comments

Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC

https://mfkl.github.io/2024/01/10/unity-double-oss-standards.html

310•cempaka•3h ago•96 comments

So Much Blood

https://dynomight.net/blood/

165•debesyla•6h ago•57 comments

CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use

https://blog.jetbrains.com/clion/2025/05/clion-is-now-free-for-non-commercial-use/

305•AlexeyBrin•3h ago•173 comments

My quest to make motorcycle riding that tad bit safer

https://gill.net.in/posts/my-quest-to-make-motorcycle-riding-safer/

86•mygnu•5h ago•91 comments

Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

https://zed.dev/blog/fastest-ai-code-editor

260•vquemener•9h ago•203 comments

Polycompiler: Merge Python and JavaScript code into one file that runs in both

https://github.com/EvanZhouDev/polycompiler

25•nickoates•3d ago•2 comments

Perfect Random Floating-Point Numbers

https://specbranch.com/posts/fp-rand/

47•pclmulqdq•3d ago•12 comments

Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs

https://felixrieseberg.github.io/clippy/

1046•felixrieseberg•1d ago•252 comments

Using tests as a debugging tool for logic errors

https://www.qodo.ai/blog/java-unit-testing-how-to-use-tests-as-a-debugging-tool-for-logic-errors/

15•simplesort•3h ago•8 comments

Cuttlefish 'talk' with their arms, study reveals

https://scienceblog.com/wildscience/2025/05/06/cuttlefish-talk-with-their-arms-study-reveals/

81•geox•1d ago•61 comments

OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-06/openai-reaches-agreement-to-buy-startup-windsurf-for-3-billion

602•swyx•1d ago•524 comments

Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database

377•willbryk•23h ago•124 comments

Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools

https://github.com/asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks/blob/main/claude.txt

488•mike210•19h ago•242 comments

Migrating a JavaScript Project from Prettier and ESLint to BiomeJS

https://blog.appsignal.com/2025/05/07/migrating-a-javascript-project-from-prettier-and-eslint-to-biomejs.html

40•unripe_syntax•5h ago•25 comments

WebMonkeys: parallel GPU programming in JavaScript

https://github.com/VictorTaelin/WebMonkeys

97•surprisetalk•2d ago•13 comments

Tabular (YC S24) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tabular/jobs/7V7rXlS-founding-engineer

1•kilianjustus•9h ago

Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2025/05/06/matt-godbolt-sold-me-on-rust-by-showing-me-c-plus-plus/

513•LorenDB•22h ago•480 comments

docker2exe: Convert a Docker image to an executable

https://github.com/rzane/docker2exe

105•alexmolas•1d ago•64 comments

Jargonic Sets New SOTA for Japanese ASR

https://aiola.ai/blog/jargonic-japanese-asr/

13•four_fifths•3h ago•4 comments

Sandy Bridge-era motherboard gets M.2 SSD boot support 12 years after launch

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/motherboards/sandy-bridge-era-motherboard-gains-m-2-ssd-boot-support-12-years-after-launch-first-new-bios-in-a-decade-for-decommissioned-motherboard

55•mobilio•3h ago•27 comments

Alignment is not free: How model upgrades can silence your confidence signals

https://www.variance.co/post/alignment-is-not-free-how-a-model-silenced-our-confidence-signals

96•karinemellata•16h ago•39 comments

VVVVVV Source Code

https://github.com/TerryCavanagh/VVVVVV

368•radeeyate•16h ago•67 comments

Old Timey Code and Old Timey Mono Fonts

https://github.com/dse/old-timey-mono-font

167•dsevil•3d ago•23 comments

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-2-5-pro-io-improved-coding-performance/

658•meetpateltech•1d ago•628 comments

Bloat is still software's biggest vulnerability (2024)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/lean-software-development

218•kristianp•16h ago•153 comments

DoorDash to acquire Deliveroo

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/06/doordash-to-buy-uk-food-delivery-firm-deliveroo-in-3point9-billion-deal.html

163•mfiguiere•1d ago•281 comments

ACE-Step: A step towards music generation foundation model

https://github.com/ace-step/ACE-Step

98•wertyk•19h ago•42 comments

Open in hackernews

FTC bans hidden fees for live events and short-term rentals, effective May 12

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/05/ftc-bans-hidden-fees-for-live-events-and-short-term-rentals-effective-may-12/

182•toomuchtodo•16h ago

Comments

toomuchtodo•16h ago

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/05/...

dang•14h ago

Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43903400, which has the source that this article is reporting on.

edgineer•14h ago

If a party campaigned on forcing price advertised = price paid I would vote for them.

sunflowerfly•11h ago

Like many countries in Europe, the price should include tax and tips as well.